Additional Name(s): مەمەت سالىھ

Gender: Male

Perpetrator: China

Ethnic Group: Uyghur

Religion or Belief: Muslim – Unspecified/Other

Reports of Torture: No

Reports of Medical Neglect: No

Date of Detainment: January//2018

Current Status: Not Released

Religious Leader: No

Most Recent Type of Abuse: Detainment

Reason for Persecution: Ethnoreligious Identity Religious Activity

Nature of Charges: Unknown

Memet Salih

Extra Bio Info:

Memet Salih is detained for his religious activity and ethnoreligious identity.

In 2017, public security officials in Urumqi Municipality, Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR) detained Salih in relation to unspecified religious practices. His wife, Qelbinur Tohti, was detained the year before in relation to her performance of religious rites at funerals and refusal to comply with official demands to change her three children’s names. Salih's arrest came amid mass detentions of ethnic minorities in XUAR.

Other members of Salih's family, including two sisters-in-law, have also been subjected to detention.

Sources:
  • "Memet Salih" Congressional-Executive Commission on China (CECC)